A Weekend with Nobel Peace Laureate Leymah Gbowee

_These events occurred in October 2011, just one week after Leymah learned she was one of three women jointly awarded the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize. The campus community was thrilled to host her. The peace prize made her honor as EMU’s 2011 “Alumnus of the Year” especially poignant. Our staff offered live webcasts of Homecoming chapel on Friday and the Sunday worship service – Leymah spoke at both events, and the line for Leymah’s book signing on Saturday began forming nearly three hours before the event began! _

Symposium: “Societies in Transition”

Faculty and alumni from the Center for Justice and Peacebuilding will explore the transition “from instability to peace,” the subtitle of this symposium, in Liberia and elsewhere in the world. Free and open to the public.

Homecoming worship service

Leymah Gbowee will be presented with EMU’s “Alumna of the Year Award” and share personal reflections. Also being honored posthumously is Glen Lapp, EMU’s “Distinguished Service Award” recipient, who was killed in 2010 while on a medical relief trip to a remote part of Afghanistan.

Doors open at 9 a.m. Overflow crowd will be hosted in Suter Science Center 106 with live video feed of the service. Following the weekend’s events, podcasts, photo galleries and videos of the weekend will be available on this page.